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Frontview corrupted :(
Hi,
It's a long story, but I'll just basically state where I am now. My Frontview v4.1.13 interface looks like this:
Everything is working, ie: shares etc, but I only got this far after forcing an OS re-install from holding the reset button in for 5 seconds after pressing the power button. I think the interface loaded ok once, but never again.
I luckily had installed SSH plugin ages ago, so I have SSH access to the box via Putty, but my Linux knowledge unfortunately isn't quite up there with my Windows Server and network infrastructure knowledge :(
Could anyone give me some guidelines as to how to get this sorted please, and if you are going to throw Linux commands at me, please go easy. I can copy/paste ok :) but I have no knowledge apart from basic ls rm rmdir etc
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE,
Sharpey,
It's a long story, but I'll just basically state where I am now. My Frontview v4.1.13 interface looks like this:
Everything is working, ie: shares etc, but I only got this far after forcing an OS re-install from holding the reset button in for 5 seconds after pressing the power button. I think the interface loaded ok once, but never again.
I luckily had installed SSH plugin ages ago, so I have SSH access to the box via Putty, but my Linux knowledge unfortunately isn't quite up there with my Windows Server and network infrastructure knowledge :(
Could anyone give me some guidelines as to how to get this sorted please, and if you are going to throw Linux commands at me, please go easy. I can copy/paste ok :) but I have no knowledge apart from basic ls rm rmdir etc
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE,
Sharpey,
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- It sounds like there are issues with the filesystem on the data volume.
You could try booting skipping the filesystem check. mdgm wrote: It sounds like there are issues with the filesystem on the data volume.
You could try booting skipping the filesystem check.
Ah, I saw that as an option of the "boot menu" list. If I skip this, and regain access to the GUI and shares, do you reckon it'll still resync fine if I put the (perfectly fine and readble) disk back into a powered-on NAS.
I've backed up all the data now anyway, but I just want to learn as much from this, rather than just Factory Reset it and start again.
I opened a can of worms here, eh? :)- Given the state of the filesystem I would suggest doing a factory reset with both disks in the NAS and restoring the data from backup.
mdgm wrote: Given the state of the filesystem I would suggest doing a factory reset with both disks in the NAS and restoring the data from backup.
It's looking that way :( Looks like another night of progress bar watching for me. Thanks for all the help getting the OS fixed though, it's greatly apppreciated.- Is there a fix or add-on that prevents the log files filling up the OS partition? I thought I read some time ago that you could change things so the files would be written to the DATA partition. This happened to me too last time I tried to do a backup and I had to SSH in and delete the log files. It would be very helpful to have some info on how to correctly deal with settings for the log files.
Spunk wrote: Is there a fix or add-on that prevents the log files filling up the OS partition? I thought I read some time ago that you could change things so the files would be written to the DATA partition. This happened to me too last time I tried to do a backup and I had to SSH in and delete the log files. It would be very helpful to have some info on how to correctly deal with settings for the log files.
+1
I did think it would be very benefical to have a truncate log file setting in the UI to prevent this happening again in the future. The lack of space actually caused an update to fail initially, which was the start of my long aventure of progress bar watching.
No way of configuring a maximum log file, or log location, via SSH?
Sharpey.- The logs are truncated automatically on schedule, apart from backup job logs (you may lose valuable info on backups if you truncate those without being prompted).
However if say entries are made excessively e.g. every second, a log file may fill up the OS partition before it can be truncated.
You can move e.g. the ReadyDLNA cache directory to the data volume.
Moving log files even if possible wouldn't be a good idea. The logs can be crucial in situations where the data volume won't mount and if the data volume doesn't mount and logs are on it then they are useless.
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